Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 15:39:25 11/19/05
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On November 19, 2005 at 16:43:03, Sune Larsson wrote: > >Yes, I like TWIC - but all names cannot be corrected in Scid. Furthermore they >have different names compared with CB. An example: a game from TWIC with Geller, >Al - *might* be transformed in scid to Geller, Alexander - but CB wants Geller, >Alexander P. So in this case you'll end up with two players in the playerbase >instead of one. [Maybe a fictive example cause in my scid there is no Geller, A >at all...] Since Partidas Gratis from Argentine just stopped in jan-05, maybe >TWIC is the relatively best upgrade source right now. Don't know for sure. PG >was excellent and presented CB quality - they had worked with names and tourneys >and adjusted them to CB. > >/S Of course it's not a good solution to use Scid for name correction if you want to have your games in Chessbase at the end. I thought CB might have a similar function like Scid, but I didn't know, because CB make no software for my OS. I was irritated by the naming scheme of the TWIC pgn collections, too. I don't understand why they provide nice sets of games, but truncate the players names in a ridiculous way. regards Andy
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